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by Zanni 7y ago
I do something like this with my own car (not a rental). I live in a very hot climate and don't have AC, so my home office is essentially useless in the summer. Recently I bought a Tesla Model 3, and I'll just take my laptop out t
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by Zanni 7y ago
People use the term in different ways, but my understanding is that "interactive fiction" was intentionally created as a broader term to encompass the games you're talking about (commonly called adventure games or text advent
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by Zanni 7y ago
That's a really powerful effect. Is there a direct link to the demo somewhere? I only see embedded videos, even in the PDF.
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by Zanni 7y ago
What's staggering to me is that Bing can have a borderline insignificant share of the search market and still bring in $7.5 billion in revenue.
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by Zanni 7y ago
It's the end of growth in mobile, though he doesn't really make that explicit.
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by Zanni 7y ago
I hope you mean "replace the side mirrors." People are bad enough about head checks as it is. And replace them with what? Sensors? Cameras?
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by Zanni 7y ago
I just traded in my 2013 Audi TTS for a Tesla Model 3 Performance on Thursday. I would have given serious consideration to an all-electric TT (if it were actually available now and not vaguely promised for a few years from now). I much pr
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by Zanni 7y ago
Nobody wants "high temperature" superconductors. They want superconductors at roughly standard temperature and pressure. This is only an advance by the extremely artificial metric of considering temperature only. Ceramic supercond
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by Zanni 7y ago
Not saying it's what actually happened , but it's possible. It's not even difficult. You can try it right now with a pen. Put your hands behind your back and see if you can point the pen at your mouth. I'm hella inflexi
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by Zanni 7y ago
It depends a lot on the software. Games that have been ported to VR are particularly bad (Skyrim makes my head spin). Games that are VR first (Beat Saber, Superhot) don't force as much head motion and are much gentler to play.
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by Zanni 7y ago
But they're not stored on central servers because we don't have room on our phones but because we want to share them with others. This whole article feels like an attack on Facebook and similar services without actually naming the
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by Zanni 7y ago
I'm reading the first link and I see language like "83 percent," "50 percent funded," and "unfunded by $86.6 billion." Are you interpreting treis' comment as "hasn't made any of the paymen
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by Zanni 7y ago
Just copying the whole post to make the links active: The machine has 8MB PSRAM so it can run micropython: https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro.... Videos of it in action: Network
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by Zanni 7y ago
If cars are piling up behind you, you should pull over to let them pass--even if you are in a car--but only if it's safe to do so. The implication in the article is that it's not safe ("to protect myself from stumbling off
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by Zanni 7y ago
Are you similarly appalled at the number of people willing to accept the deaths of children, adults, even entire families in automobile accidents every year in the name of letting a majority have access to personal transportation? In both c
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by Zanni 7y ago
The article mentions traveling wave reactors and molten salt reactors being developed by Terra Power. Any relationship or synergy between these two, or are they orthogonal efforts?
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by Zanni 7y ago
Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa is an introduction to General Semantics and deals with the limitations of language-oriented mental models, e.g. "the map is not the territory," a reminder that a model is just a mod
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by Zanni 7y ago
Agree completely, although I'd frame it differently. I'm not sure how much sympathy anyone has for the Uber folks specifically, but this would certainly be food for thought for anyone thinking of starting a company in SF, or conte
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by Zanni 7y ago
It may be just a matter of framing. That's one huge advantage people have over animals. If you don't view the loss as a loss but as a necessary step to winning, does it have the same psychological and physiological effect?
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by Zanni 7y ago
Wow. I didn't expect to enjoy an article about an "old mom," but this was fantastic. Her voice is so direct and engaging. This reads more like a blog post that just happens to be brilliant. Now I want to read one of her novel
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by Zanni 7y ago
For those who didn't (or can't) read the article, the question being posed is--can they resist committing to additional recurring expenses in the face of a one-time windfall, not can they resist imposing a windfall profits tax o
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by Zanni 7y ago
There's a download link to the right of the abstract. Here's the PDF, in case it's not showing up on mobile, or whatever: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf
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by Zanni 7y ago
That's great for those of us who live in Hawaii, but we already skip Daylight Savings Time. What about everyone who lives far enough from the equator that the length of the day changes significantly through the seasons? You could hold
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by Zanni 7y ago
Ah, interesting. I was wondering why they looked so much older, like 10-30 years older, to my eyes.
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by Zanni 7y ago
Except that's not how unemployment is measured. It's measured by people seeking work, not by job openings. [0] If you really think it's an illusion, a better argument would be that people are dropping out of the workforce, i.
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by Zanni 7y ago
You're probably thinking of Stanislav Petrov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
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by Zanni 7y ago
quiz -> quit -> suit recycles q and z.
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by Zanni 7y ago
Depends on your definition. I think they qualify as a startup because they're still in their hockey-stick growth phase.
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by Zanni 7y ago
As a Microsoft shareholder, this was my favorite line from the article: "for Microsoft, 'profitable and boring' is just a longer way of saying 'profitable.'"
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by Zanni 7y ago
Since practicality doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker here, I'm wondering why no zero-wheel cars? https://moller.com/moller_skycar200.html

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